Intel's Sandy Bridge E-Series in Q4 2011?

[davewolfgang]

Not quite a set price. In late August Intel slashed the price of the i7-950 from near $600 to less than $300. At about the same time they quietly discontinued any new i7-940 and i7-960 production. Due to the way speed binning procedures work, essentially when you buy an i7-930 now you have a chance of getting a 'golden chip' that once would have been stepped and marketed as a 940, or you may get a 960 for the reduced price of a 950. Which is why some of those 950s overclock so well, btw.
Obviously they did this because otherwise they would have had nothing even close to competing with AMD's 1075T and 1090T.
Gawd bless those Black Edition fanboys for keeping the marketplace competitive!

MicroCenter has i7-950's for $199. No rebate either, that's the price at the register.

 

[bhaberle]

Ok this is starting to be annoying. Pick a couple sockets and stick with it for a while Intel. I dont want to buy a new motherboard every time I want a new processor.

 

[ubercake]

I hope the X68 chipset will offer more PCIe lanes than this initial Sandy Bridge offering.

 

[techguy378]

[citation][nom]kinggremlin[/nom]I certainly wouldn't spend $1000 on a CPU exclusively for this purpose, but if you haven't played PS2 games at 1920x1200 with all the texture filtering and eye candy of DX11, then you are missing out on something. The graphical improvements for some games, make it feel like you are playing the game for the first time.[/citation]
Unless you have the full source code for a particular game then the graphics won't look any better on a PC emulator than they would running natively on the PS2. I suppose you think that upsampling DVD video will get you HD video too.

 

[noblerabbit]

[citation][nom]nodeffect[/nom]My new PC felt like an old PC because Intel update their chips so frequently... Bought an i7 and after one month the sandy bride came out and now this.. damn intel...[/citation]

Moore's Law is alive and well, the question remains, will you ride each wave, or will you surf only the big ones?

 

[Guest]

extreme edition > $1000 procie is for sheikh, bill gates, trump family only HUAHAHAA.